Thank you to all the readers for the comments on the wikipedia article. Those things are annoying to format, and I often have to copy paste them into a word doc, lest a weeks worth of reformatting gets lost. It might be awhile before that particular format returns, but I've got some other ideas cooking.
Now, to the matter of the revolutionaries. Sympathy is intially for the crown, if only because a 14 year old boy and a mother/wife were just gunned down. Even if they could be considered by some to be "enemies of the people", there will be those abroad that feel women and children shouldn't be made targets as well. Once word gets out about mass reprisals involving discrimmatory executions, public opinion at home and abroad are going to sour quickly. Yes, this is going to polarize many, but it may also force others to rethink things.
As for political leanings, like many revolutionary groups, the Russians have several political groups battling it out. Socialists, proto-communists, anarchists, monarchists, republicans, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and secret police battling it out. Foreign groups from Germany and elsewhere are agitating and providing cash, offering havens to expatriate Russian revolutionaries, etc. Its just that Russia is a boiling pot of mixed groups set to a very high boil. And not all of these groups get along. Anarchists will backstab the socialists for a quick win, while the socialists may cozy up to the government and offer information if the government doesn't go after them quite as much.
Russia in the 20's and 30's is going to be a much different place then in our world. Its probably going to be the time when more reactionary and revolutionary elements are going to be at hand, but we haven't reached that point yet, so such will be a long time coming.