Although they would agree with a “revolutionary outcome”, the most important difference between Tilly’s and Lenin’s theories in terms of how they understand the Russian Revolution comes from how revolutionary situations and outcomes combined. Tilly claims, “the early movement of coercive resources to the alternative coalition, the more likely a transfer of power” (Tilly 216). It indicates that Tilly more likely see the emergence of multiple sovereignty as the sufficient conditions for revolution outcome because it allows “the mobilizability of different sorts of groups for different kinds of action” for revolutionary activism (Tilly 199). He stated, “An extensive revolutionary situation increases the likelihood of an extensive transfer of power
