2013-06-112013-06-112004-10Nature, society, and thought, Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 2004)0890-6130https://hdl.handle.net/11299/150754ARTICLES: David Schweickart, Successor-System Theory as an Orienting Device: Trying to Understand China. Jeffrey Surovell, Russia after the Fall of the Soviet Union: A Case of Capitalist Dependency. MARXIST FORUM: Presentation by the Iraqi Communist Party at the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, Athens, 8–10 October 2004. Li Shenming, Socialism over a Century: Retrospect and Prospect. Vladimiro Giacché, War against the Truth. Visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Cuba, 12–13 December 2004. BOOK REVIEWS: April A. Knutson, Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez. AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX TO VOLUME 17. ABSTRACTS (in English and French).enNewsletter or Bulletin