The Black Sea Fleet would play an instrumental political role in the 1905 Russian Revolution with the crew of the battleship revolting in 1905 soon after the Navy's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. The revolt acquired a symbolic character in the lead up to the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and after, as portrayed in the 1925 film by Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin. Lenin wrote that the "Potemkin" uprising had had a huge importance in terms of being the first attempt at creating the nucleus of a revolutionary army.