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Innocent weapons

Peacock, Margaret.

Innocent weapons the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War / [electronic resource] : Margaret Peacock. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The new Cold War history . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Building an image, building a consensus -- The contained child on the cusp of a new era -- The "other" child -- Victims, hooligans, and the importance of threat -- Mobilized childhood responds to the threat -- Part II. Revising an ideal : the collapse of an image, the collapse of consensus -- Soviet childhood in film during the thaw -- American childhood and the bomb -- Vietnam and the fall of an image -- Conclusion.

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Cold War--Political aspects--United States.
Cold War--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Cold War--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
Children in popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Children in popular culture--History.--Soviet Union
Children and politics--History--United States--20th century.
Children and politics--History.--Soviet Union


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.


Electronic books.

HQ784.P5 / P43 2014