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The red corner : the rise and fall of communism in northeastern Montana
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- Creator
- Verlaine Stoner McDonald
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Helena, MT : Montana Historical Society Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780975919675, 0975919679
- OCLC
- ocn441166586
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The peculiar case of Sheridan County communism -- Plentywood, Montana : "A new metropolis in the Northwest" -- "No place for the feeble" : homesteading on the northeastern Montana prairie -- The agrarian myth and prairie politics : precursors to radicalism -- Mountain politics : socialism and syndicalism -- The Nonpartisan League and the "old time socialists" -- Marketing the farmers' movement : the Nonpartisan League and the Producers news -- Bait and switch : communism creeps into Sheridan County -- Bootleggers and boycotts : liquor, the law, and radical politics -- No longer under cover : unconcealed communism in Sheridan County -- Big trouble in "Little Moscow" : a newspaper war erupts -- In and out of the fold : Sheridan County radicals and the Communist Party-USA -- "Seeing red" : radicalism and opposition escalate -- Personnel problems take a toll at the polls -- Death throes of a movement -- The demise of communism in Sheridan County
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.