some prelim. notes on the "Report"

The date is March 1927 -which is before the Long March, before Mao is head of the CCP and ... as far as I can gather, Mao wrote this before the Autumm Harvest Uprising in HuNan -which was a disaster and led to Mao's initial decline in the party. The peasant "laboratory" -i suppose we might call it that - however provided the central insight into the future of communism in China.

also note: April '27 was when KMT's purge of the communists began.