Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana\u3c/i\u3e by Verlaine Stoner McDonald

It\u27s not often that such names as Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky figure centrally in works dealing with Montana history. But that\u27s the case with Verlaine Stoner McDonald\u27s The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana. McDonald\u27s history deals with a little-known but fascinating chapter in Montana, and western, history the 1920s electoral takeover of the local government of Sheridan County, Montana, by Communist Party members. As McDonald shows, Sheridan County, an agrarian territory of 10,000 persons in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, proved fertile territory for a variety of leftist political movements, including Bryanite populism, the Non-Partisan League, and, for a brief period, Communism