Innocent weapons : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War

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Label

Innocent weapons : the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War

Title remainder

the Soviet and American politics of childhood in the Cold War

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Peacock

Creator

• Peacock, Margaret

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Peacock, Margaret

Subject

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

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

305.230947

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The new Cold War history

Target audience

adult