The document discusses the founding of the Communist Party of China and its early collaboration with the Chinese nationalist party known as the Guomindang or GMD in the First United Front from 1922 to 1927. The United Front was formed in China to end warlordism and saw cooperation between the Communist Party led by figures like Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and the GMD headed by Sun Yat Sen initially and later Chiang Kai Shek, with advisers from the Soviet Union also playing a role.