According to Tilly, multiple sovereignty is the “distinguishing characteristic of a revolutionary situation”. Thus, the February Revolution would be identified as a “revolutionary situation” in Tilly’s revolutionary theory. During the February Revolution, Trotsky identified dual sovereignty of Russia in 1917 (Tilly 191). Also, Fitzpatrick uses the term “Dual power” to describe the February revolution, by stating “the new Provisional Government would represent the elite revolution, while the newly revived Petrograd Soviet would speak for the revolution of the people” (40). According to Tilly, multiple sovereignty means the appearance of new ideologies and intellectuals, commitment to alternative claims, and incapacity of the government to suppress
