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Innocent weapons : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War / Margaret Peacock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peacock, Margaret, author.
- Series:
- New Cold War history
- The new Cold War history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children and politics--History.
- Children and politics.
- Children and politics--History--20th century.
- Children in popular culture--Soviet Union--History.
- Children in popular culture.
- Children in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Cold War--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
- Cold War.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Cold War--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
- Cold War--Political aspects--United States.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469618579
- 1469618575
- OCLC:
- 875742483
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