Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

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Peacock Margaret E.
The University of North Carolina Press
EAN: 9781469618579
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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 E. 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.
EAN 9781469618579
ISBN 1469618575
Binding Hardback
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date August 30, 2014
Pages 352
Language English
Dimensions 169 x 242 x 25
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Peacock Margaret E.
Illustrations 29 halftones
Series New Cold War History
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