Love, Hatred, and Heroism: Socializing Children in North Vietnam during Wartime, 1965–75

Dror, Olga

doi:10.1353/hcy.2016.0054

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“…Course themes included explorations of propaganda, consumption and consumerism, peace, youth organisations, child diplomacy, material culture, popular culture, and ideological formation, with an effort to give as equal weight as possible to the ways media and political entities constructed these domains of childhood in both the East and the West. Students engaged with scholarship from historians of childhood, primary-source material in the form of media clips, visual propaganda, and commercial advertisements, and the invaluable anarchive of firsthand memories compiled in the database Memories of Everyday Childhoods: De-Colonial and De-Cold War Dialogues on Childhood and Schooling (additional assigned course readings include Bogic 2018;Dror 2016;Dubinsky 2012;Fattal 2018;Funder 2003;Fürst 2015;Ivaska 2015;Godeanu-Kenworthy 2020;Stearns 2017;Vavrus 2021).…”

Section: The Course: Comparative Cold War Childhoodsmentioning

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“…Children's persistence and creativity in acquiring a desired object seems to be universal. Evidence of children's conspicuous consumption practices in the West, compared to the kulturnost ethos of consumption in the East, or the steady filtering of Western goods into places like Yugoslavia and late-socialist Poland that straddled the Iron Curtain, all reveal children's consumption as a normalising factor that elides the constructed cultural differences between communism and capitalism (Burrell 2011;Drakulić 1991).…”

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What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the ‘Iron Curtain’. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an ‘anarchive’: a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures―and the past’s futures―what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become. (An)Archive will be of particular interest to scholars in a variety of fields, but particularly to artists, educators, historians, social scientists, and others working with memory methodologies that range from collective biography to oral history, (auto)biography, autoethnography, and archives.

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“…Meanwhile, economic sanctions were imposed by the US and its allies, further exacerbating an over-reliance on the weakening Soviet Bloc (Hoan, 1991;MacLean, 2008). The challenging subsidy era lasted until 1986, and was characterized by stagnant economic growth, limited interactions with countries outside the Soviet Bloc, and a statecontrolled monopoly regulating nearly all commodities (Kerkvliet,3 While not the focus of this study, see Dror (2016) 2011; Labbé & Musil, 2014). The city's population grew very slowly between 1954 and 1975, as the government's wartime policy aimed to disperse urban inhabitants and industries to the countryside (Bousquet, 2015).…”

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From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam

Turner,

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Nguyen

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Population Space and Place

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Over the span of three generations, Vietnam's capital Hanoi, has transformed from a modest city grappling with food scarcity during the socialist subsidy era to a sprawling metropolis marked by gated communities and a widening wealth divide. Employing a child‐centric, multi‐generational family methodology, with members of 13 families across three generations, we explore the diverse childhood experiences shaped by these rapid urban transformations. Grandparents shared stories of unrestricted outdoor play despite challenging conditions, while parents noted a lack of academic pressures in their youth. Contemporary children enjoy access to new technology and consumer goods, but face important mobility restrictions due to parental and societal concerns. Our findings reveal that the Vietnamese context engendered distinctive childhood reflections for the two older generations, contrasting with childhoods in non‐socialist contexts during the same periods. Meanwhile, the contemporary Vietnamese state has crafted a ‘social evils’ discourse that shapes current childhood opportunities in specific ways. By being centered on urban Vietnam—a context vastly different from Global North‐dominated narratives in childhood studies—our study acts as a counterpoint that enriches the field with perspectives from a politically‐socialist state. Focusing on the unique childhood experiences within Hanoi's evolving socio‐spatial landscape, we advocate for more diverse understandings of childhood that respect varied realities across contexts.

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“…As Karen Dubinsky () explains, fears about losing their children to the state led thousands of Cuban parents to send their children to the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan, a mass evacuation of Cuban youngsters organized by Catholic Church in concert with the CIA and anti‐Castro forces. In North Vietnam, Olga Dror notes, state officials sought to mold young revolutionaries by cultivating love for Hồ Chí Minh—“Uncle Hồ”—who was portrayed as the “leader of the national family” (Dror, , p. 429; see also Dror, ).…”

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The nursery'sIronCurtain: Children, childhood, and the globalColdWar

Fieldston

2019

History Compass

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This essay surveys recent literature on children, childhood, and the Cold War. Over the past decade or so, numerous studies have explored the complex ways in which children and young people both bolstered and challenged the Cold War order. In doing so, they have shed new light on the social and cultural dynamics of the Cold War, encouraged historians to recover formerly marginalized voices, and expanded our definition of politics to include arenas far removed from the formal halls of power. Moreover, looking at youth has revealed striking similarities between the two superpowers whose rivalry defined the latter half of the 20th century.

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Love, Hatred, and Heroism: Socializing Children in North Vietnam during Wartime, 1965–75

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From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam

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