Grassroots Resistance: Underground Press and Boycotts

Authoritarian Power and Resistance Movements

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Examine how citizens use clandestine publishing (samizdat), strikes, and civil disobedience to resist centralized power.

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Authoritarian Power and Resistance Movements

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-MD-SS

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Analyze how authoritarian regimes centralize power through censorship and control, and evaluate how citizens and youth movements organize grassroots resistance.

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6/7.3.4.bMaryland Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Examining efforts to resist the centralization of power within authoritarian regimes and the ways that they connected and divided people.