At least we're back to talking about famines. But logic dear Jim Carrol is another affair. You happen to be reading a book about Stalin that doesn't go into the famine THEREFORE the famine wasn't a 'thing' and wasn't caused by Soviet perfidy, i.e. collectivization and persecution of the 'Kulaks' as I believe you yourself mentioned in an earlier post? You must think you have the flexibility of a snake bending all around those ideological corners. I think your version of being well-informed is to further entrench yourself in your pre-existing ideological framework.

Ideology doesn't feed people. Food feeds people.

The estimates of deaths in the Ukraine famine is well over 5 million.
I don't think anyone in this thread has mentioned the estimated 2 million Cambodians who perished due to the Khmer Rouge. Entirely created by the leadership.
In the modern era there seem to be famines wherever the Communists have had durable control of a country. Venezuela is shaping up as the next venue.