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Author:

Peacock, Margaret, author.

Title:

Innocent weapons : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War / Margaret Peacock.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

286 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Children and politics--History.
Children and politics--History--20th century.
Children in popular culture--Soviet Union--History.
Children in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Cold War--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
Cold War--Political aspects--United States.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The new Cold War history

ISBN:

1469618575 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781469618579 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)875742483

LCCN:

2014017084

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)