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This is great. just adding a few points
There were mismanagement issues by the Soviets as well which exacerbated the issue.
Misreporting by local Kulaks or corrupt officials meant that initially the Soviets continued grain exports (grain being one of the only trade options the Soviets had to get much needed agricultural machinery, because the west had shut down Soviet gold and mineral exports. This created a catch 22 where they needed to export grain they didn't have, or they wouldn't be able to have a secure grain production.)
This in turn caused a bunch of issues up and down the chain of command, where starvation panic and Kulak revolts were conflated. Measures to bring what they thought was a simple withdrawal of food supply (rather than the destruction of the supply) under control resulted in them not taking adequate famine prevention measures quickly enough, and removing remaining grain from the area.
Once senior officials did realise the scale of the disaster, the response was rapid. Stalin's writings are not thrilled.