Verbal gymnastics : the Soviet Union enters the Olympic movement -- Leveling the playing field : Soviet sports administrators abroad and international sports exchanges under Khrushchev, 1953-1964 -- Getting things done : Soviet bureaucrats' expanding role in the IOC and Moscow's bid to host the games -- "An exemplary communist city" : preparing Moscow for the 1980 Olympic Games -- A job well done? : welcoming the world to the 1980 Moscow Olympiad.