# Quote — Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy

> Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a pre-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

- Author: [Orlando Figes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orlando-figes.md)
- Book: [A People's Tragedy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orlando-figes/a-peoples-tragedy.md)
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