Acknowledgements
The idea for this edited volume resulted from the inspiring presentations and discussions at the international conference “‘Firsthand Time.’ Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s,” held at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin on January 16–18, 2020. The conference and the preparation of this book were generously sponsored and made possible by the ZfL and the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. We thank the editors of “Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics” for the inclusion of our volume into their series and their encouraging feedback, the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, and Masja Horn and Iulia Ivana from Brill publishers for their support and companionship throughout the publication process. We would like to thank Charlotte Bull and Max Kaplan for the language editing of the essays, Arina Ranneva for the preparation of the index, and Margarita Mestscherjakow and Katharina Kelbler for the formal editing of the volume.