The book makes an important contribution to elucidating the history of Ethnology and Archeology in Vietnam in a period of vivid and majestic history of the nation. The aim of the book is to clarify the influence and imprint of the Soviet Ethnography and partly the Soviet Archeology in Anthropology in Vietnam in the second half of the twentieth century. The entire content of the book shows the formation of the Soviet school in Ethnology and Archeology in the Soviet Union; propaganda of the Soviet school in Vietnam; the influences and imprints of the Soviet school on Anthropology in Vietnam in key aspects, such as research, teaching, organizational structure... expressed by the voices of the very people who were trained in the Soviet school, and those who are interested in this issue.