Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.3.C
The Standard
- MWH.C.6
- Evaluate the global transformation created by the World Wars.
- MWH.C.6.3
- Analyze the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution on global politics, social structures, human rights, and economic systems.
Describe Stalin’s rise to power and establishment of a totalitarian regime, the use of mass terror during the Great Purge, the suppression of political opposition, and the state policies that led to the Holodomor famine in Ukraine.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.6.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Stalin used his party position to push out rivals after Lenin's death. They connect arrests and executions during the Great Purge to the suppression of opposition. They explain how forced collectivization and grain seizures contributed to famine in Ukraine.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can put Stalin's rise, the famine in Ukraine, and the Great Purge in order. They can name a state action behind each event and explain its effect on people.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Stalin won power in a single election or that everyone arrested in the Great Purge had committed a crime. Some blame the famine only on bad weather and miss the effects of grain seizures and restrictions on leaving Ukraine.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Put party appointments, defeat of rivals, forced collectivization, and the Great Purge in order. Explain how one state policy worsened the famine in Ukraine and how the purge silenced opposition.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards labeled party appointments, rivals expelled, grain seizures, and Great Purge; have them build a timeline with one effect per card.
Show a Soviet collectivization poster and a Ukrainian survivor account; ask what each source shows or hides about farm policy.
Play a three-corner sort: read cards naming party appointments, grain seizures, show trials, and travel bans; students choose power grab, famine, or terror.
Bring a grocery receipt; circle staple foods, then explain how grain seizures and travel bans cut off food for Ukrainian families.
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Related Standards
- TOT.C.8.2.I
mass murder of peasants (“dekulakization”), genocidal starvation of Ukrainians (Holodomor).
- MWH.C.6.3.B
Summarize the consequences of Soviet communism, including the establishment of a one-party dictatorship under Lenin, government seizure of private property, and...
- TOT.C.8.1.B
rise of Josef Stalin
- TOT.C.3.2.B
October Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power, and the establishment of one-party dictatorship
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