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An officer in this war proposed a “military gazette” aimed at its largely illiterate rank-and-file soldiers, which was promptly quashed by his country’s king. A declaration that the losing side in this war “was not sulking but meditating” names a period known as recueillement (“ruh-koy-MAHN”), during which glasnost took on its current political meaning. Lenin argued this war’s loser faced a choice between the “American” and “Prussian” roads when ending an “ill” targeted by Alexander Gorchakov. Nikolai Pirogov developed a system to triage casualties of (10[1])this war, (10[2])while another person developed (10[1])a (10[1])polar (10[2])area (10[4])diagram (10[7]-5[1])to track disease during it. (10[2])The failure of peasant armies in this war at battles like Inkerman prompted the creation of zemstvos following it. Russia’s Great Reforms occurred following, for 10 points, what 1850s war fought around the Black Sea? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Crimean War (The officer in the first sentence was Leo Tolstoy, whose Sevastopol Sketches played a similar role to dispatches from the front.)
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