Which nineteenth-century term of Russian currency did Nietzsche use for the collapse of traditional Western values?
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Correct answer: C. Nihilism
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Nihilism (popularised by Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, 1862); for Nietzsche it follows the 'death of God'.
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