How was Lenin views of communism different from Marx's theorie?

Unlike Marx, Lenin believed in a small, controlling central government. In this regard, his "people's commissariat" eventually adopted the classic autocratic form of government, ironically one of the major flaws that Marx found with capitalism.

Lenin also believed that Russia was a "special case" and could skip over both the Capitalist and Socialist systems, jumping directly from Feudalism to Communism. This was what differentiated Lenin's Bolshevik party from the Menshevik party that said that Marx's four "stages of history" were required everywhere to reach Communism.