Grigorii Khanin

Grigorii Isaakovich Khanin (Russian: Григорий Исаакович Ханин; born 11 June 1937) is a Russian economist (Doctor of economic sciences) best known for his 1987 recalculation of official Soviet Union's economic growth statistics.

[1][2][3] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began recalculating Russian economic statistics.

His work on the economic history of the Soviet Union and Russia has always been controversial but well grounded in the available (often adjusted by him) statistics.

He has also integrated his alternative statistics into a series of books on the economic history of the Soviet Union and Russia from the late 1930s to 1998.

A feature of his work has been the utilisation of a wide range of published sources in both Russian and English.