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

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 I. building an image, building a consensus 1. The Contained Child on the Cusp of a New Era 17 2. The “Other” Child 42 3. Victims, Hooligans, and the Importance of Threat 71 4. Mobilized Childhood Responds to the Threat 94 II. revising an ideal 5. Soviet Childhood in Film during the Thaw 123 6. American Childhood and the Bomb 160 7. Vietnam and the Fall of an Image 193 Conclusion 215 Notes 227 Bibliography 255 Acknowledgments 273 Index 275 This page intentionally left blank ...