ISBN:
9781469618586
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1469618583
,
9781469618593
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1469618591
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9781469618579
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1469618575
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Series Statement:
New Cold War history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Peacock, Margaret Innocent weapons
DDC:
305.230947
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1945-1969
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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Kind
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Außenpolitik
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Innenpolitik
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Jugendpolitik
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Bildungswesen
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Politik
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Children and politics History 20th century
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Children and politics History 20th century
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Children in popular culture History
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Children in popular culture History
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Cold War Social aspects
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Cold War Social aspects
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Cold War Political aspects
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Cold War Political aspects
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Propaganda
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Kind
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Politische Kampagne
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Kind
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Sowjetunion
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USA
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Sowjetunion
;
USA
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Electronic books
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USA
;
Sowjetunion
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
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Kind
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Propaganda
;
Politische Kampagne
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Kind
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Geschichte 1945-1969
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.--
Note:
Print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618579.001.0001
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