Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.8.1

TOT.C.8.1 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• TOT.C.8.1.A

  New Economic Policy

• TOT.C.8.1.B

  rise of Josef Stalin

• TOT.C.8.1.C

  collectivization and the First Five Year Plan

• TOT.C.8.1.D

  Great Terror, including murder of foreign Communists living in the USSR

01

What Students Need to Do

Students build a timeline from limited private trade to Stalin’s control of farms and factories, then mass arrests and killings. They explain how Stalin gained power, why economic policy changed, and how the terror reached foreign Communists living in the USSR.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student places the New Economic Policy before the first Five Year Plan and explains that collectivization forced farmers onto collective farms. They describe Stalin’s rise through party power struggles and identify foreign Communists among the people killed during the Great Terror.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may mistake the New Economic Policy for full capitalism or think Stalin took power immediately after the 1917 revolution. Some assume farmers joined collective farms by choice. Others think foreign Communists were safe from Stalin’s purges.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Put the New Economic Policy, Stalin’s rise, the first Five Year Plan, and the Great Terror in order. Explain how collectivization changed farming and name one group targeted during the terror besides Soviet citizens.

1. 01

   Give pairs dated event cards and have them build a paper timeline, adding one note on how state control changed at each step.

2. 02

   Show short excerpts describing private trade under the New Economic Policy and forced grain collection; ask students to write what changed for farmers.

3. 03

   Play policy bingo with squares such as private trade, factory quotas, collective farms, and arrests; read clues and ask students to justify each match.

4. 04

   Write a school fundraiser goal and a Soviet steel production target on the board; ask who sets each and what happens if missed.

• TOT.C.8.3

  Describe interwar Soviet foreign policy and the effect of World War II, including the

• TOT.C.8.2

  Describe the domestic policies of interwar Soviet Russia, including the

• TOT.C.9.10

  Examine the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the August Coup (e.g., the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the pluralist movement, uprisings in...

• MWH.C.6.3

  Analyze the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution on global politics, social structures, human rights, and economic systems.