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273 Acknowledgments I owe a great debt of gratitude to many people for making this book possible. I received financial support from the U.S. State Department as a FulbrightHays scholar, the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, and the Department of Education. I received a number of grants from the University of Texas at Austin, including the Gardner F. Marston Fellowship, the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Fellowship, and a Continuing Education Grant. I also received assistance from the University of Alabama in the form of Research Center Grants, funding from Capstone International, and research provisions from the Department of History. Several librarians and archivists, across two continents and fourteen archives , were crucial to the success of this project. I owe special thanks to Galina Mikhailovna Tokareva at the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, who took me under her wing and gave me access to Pioneer materials . She was herself a Komsomol leader and provided valuable insights during our daily breaks for tea. In the United States, Wendy Chmielewski at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection was very helpful in directing my research, as were Steven Price at the Boy Scouts of America Archive in Irving, Texas, and Yevgeniya Gribov at the Girl Scouts of America Archive in New York City. The archivists running the Vietnam archive in Lubbock, Texas, are also to be commended for their willingness to talk at length with me about digitizing and declassifying documents. A number of people offered countless hours of careful reading and advice. Joan Neuberger continues to be a role model for professionalism, discipline, and decency in the field. This project would not have been possible without her sound advice and constant encouragement. In the early stages of this project, Josephine Woll, Catriona Kelly, Deborah Field, Charters Wynn, Mark Lawrence, Julia Mickenberg, Mary Neuburger, Karl Brown, Paul Rubinson, and David Oshinsky offered vital feedback. I relied on the help of my colleagues and friends at the University of Alabama and around the world. I am particularly indebted to Janek Wasserman, who gave thoughtful, line-by-line feedback on the manuscript, along with many hours of challenging conversation. Stephen Bunker, Howard Jones, 274 Acknowledgments Jimmy Mixson, Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, Joshua Rothman, and Kari Frederickson spent many hours coaxing me through this process. George Thompson, our publisher-in-residence, offered useful advice. I also greatly appreciated the assistance of Brett Spencer and Patricia Causey at the University of Alabama libraries. The members of the First International Russian Children’s History Colloquium, which met in Paris in the summer of 2012, offered crucial critique before I submitted the manuscript. These include Julie DeGraffenreid, Ann Livschiz, Karl Qualls, Elaine McKinnon, and Jacqueline Olich. The invitation to present the manuscript to the Carolina Seminar at the University of North Carolina proved very rewarding. Once I submitted the manuscript, Jeremi Suri and Jacqueline Olich were generous beyond measure in their careful readings of the manuscript, their suggestions for revisions, and their positive support. I also appreciated the questions and advice that came from friends at crucial points in the revision process: Kate Brown, Paul Hagenloh , Helena Goscilo, Louise McReynolds, Donald Raleigh, Gleb Tsipursky, Emily Baran, Ann Powers, Edward Geist, Zach Levine, Maya Haber, and Sean Guillory. I must especially thank Ann Livschiz, Erik Peterson, and Marcus Witcher, who gave many of their precious hours to ferret out all the little mistakes in the final manuscript that I could no longer see. At the University of North Carolina Press, I must also thank my editor, Chuck Grench, and his two assistants, Sara Jo Cohen and Lucas Church. My copyeditor, Dorothea Anderson, and production editor, Paul Betz, have been wonderful. Thanks, also, to Odd Arne Westad for placing this book in the New Cold War History series. To my family I owe my greatest debt. My husband, D.Jay, and our three daughters, Amelia, Sylvia, and Mira, have experienced this book with me. They traveled the world with me. My mother has provided constant encouragement . My father was also an important driving force in this project. He passed away while the book was being written, and I like to think that he was a part of it as well. Finally, I must thank my husband. I could not have accomplished this without him. He was more patient and giving than I could ever have hoped. This book is a testament to his belief in me, and I appreciate...

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