>>23825221. No, because of the lack of power that gave the working class, it was a process of industrialization similar to that of other capitalist countries, workers worked long hours in possibly unsafe working conditions, and the soviets never really regained political power outside of approving what the central leadership of the Communist Party decided after the 1920s, which meant the workers who were lower ranking in the Party as well as the non-party workers did not have much political power, and that's why the Party was to constantly lead campaigns of criticism and self-criticism, as people were afraid to criticize them outside of certain boundaries and the party needed to set those boundaries.
2. They did find common ground initially, but Trotsky's emphasis on entryism into social democratic parties led them to split, as they saw this as counter-productive and similar to the tactics of the Second International. They also disagreed with Trotsky's theory of the USSR as a "degenerated workers' state", they didn't believe there could be a workers' state where the workers didn't hold power, that would be a contradiction in terms.