The red corner
Subtitle: the rise and fall of communism in northeastern Montana
By: Verlaine Stoner McDonald.
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Helena, MT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780975919675
Subjects: Communism -- Montana -- Sheridan County -- History -- 20th century; Radicalism -- Montana -- Sheridan County -- History -- 20th century; Social movements -- Montana -- Sheridan County -- History -- 20th century; Social conflict -- Montana -- Sheridan County -- History -- 20th century; Sheridan County (Mont.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Sheridan County (Mont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Sheridan County (Mont.) -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The peculiar case of Sheridan County communism; title: Plentywood, Montana : "A new metropolis in the Northwest"; title: "No place for the feeble" : homesteading on the northeastern Montana prairie; title: The agrarian myth and prairie politics : precursors to radicalism; title: Mountain politics : socialism and syndicalism; title: The Nonpartisan League and the "old time socialists"; title: Marketing the farmers' movement : the Nonpartisan League and the Producers news; title: Bait and switch : communism creeps into Sheridan County; title: Bootleggers and boycotts : liquor, the law, and radical politics; title: No longer under cover : unconcealed communism in Sheridan County; title: Big trouble in "Little Moscow" : a newspaper war erupts; title: In and out of the fold : Sheridan County radicals and the Communist Party-USA; title: "Seeing red" : radicalism and opposition escalate; title: Personnel problems take a toll at the polls; title: Death throes of a movement; title: The demise of communism in Sheridan County.