  In this lecture, I review progress made in the calculations of the
parity-violating meson-nucleon interaction regions. The underlying framework is
the topological chiral soliton model of the nucleon. Emphasis is put on the
computation of theoretically and experimentally accessible nuclear parity
violating observables. I stress the importance of the interplay of strong and
weak interactions which makes this field interesting and challenging. I also
discuss recent developments pointing towards the importance of strange quark
admixtures in the proton wave function. (Invited talk presented at the Workshop
on ``Baryons as Skyrme Solitons'', Siegen, September, 1992. For figures,
contact author)
