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Author Peacock, Margaret, author.

Title Innocent weapons : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War / Margaret Peacock
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series The new Cold War history
New Cold War history.
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. Soviet childhood in film during the thaw -- American childhood and the bomb -- Vietnam and the fall of an image -- Conclusion
Summary In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad. Groups on either side of the Iron Curtain pushed visions of endangered, abandoned, and segregated children to indict the enemy's state and its policies. Though the Cold War is often characterized as an ideological divide between the capitalist West and the communist East, Peacock demonstrates a deep symmetry in how Soviet and American propagandists mobilized similar images to similar ends, despite their differences. Based on extensive research spanning fourteen archives and three countries, Peacock tells a new story of the Cold War, seeing the conflict not simply as a divide between East and West, but as a struggle between the producers of culture and their target audiences.-- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 13, 2023)
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava gnd
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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Children and politics
Children in popular culture
Politics and government
Social aspects
Kind Motiv
Kind
Ost-West-Konflikt
Außenpolitik
Innenpolitik
Jugendpolitik
Bildungswesen
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125848
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
Subject Soviet Union
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014017084
ISBN 9781469618586
1469618583
9781469618593
1469618591