Innocent weapons
Subtitle: the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War
By: Margaret Peacock
Series: The new Cold War history; New Cold War history
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781469633442; 9781469618579
Subjects: Politics and government; Children in popular culture; Cold War; Children and politics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Building an image, building a consensus; title: The contained child on the cusp of a new era; title: The "other" child; title: Victims, hooligans, and the importance of threat; title: Mobilized childhood responds to the threat; title: Part II. Revising an ideal : the collapse of an image, the collapse of consensus; title: Soviet childhood in film during the thaw; title: American childhood and the bomb; title: Vietnam and the fall of an image; title: Conclusion.