Innocent weapons [electronic resource] : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War / Margaret Peacock.
Material type: TextSeries: The new Cold War history | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9781469618593
- 1469618591
- 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 -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Children in popular culture -- Soviet Union -- History
- Children and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Children and politics -- Soviet Union -- History
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
- HQ784.P5 P43 2014
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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