Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===Communism espionage===
In 1924, Chambers read [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s ''Soviets at Work'' and was deeply affected by it. He now saw the dysfunctional nature of his family, he would write, as "in miniature the whole crisis of the middle class", a malaise from which communism promised liberation. Chambers's biographer [[Sam Tanenhaus]] wrote that Lenin's authoritarianism was "precisely what attracts Chambers.&nbsp;... He had at last found his church."{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Chambers became a [[Marxist]] and, in 1925, joined the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA), then known as the [[Workers Party of America]].