I checked up on the book you recommended and found this page:
The Problem With Socialism
https://mises.org/blog/problem-socialism
Tags Education Taxes and Spending Political Theory
07/19/2016
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
...I bought 4 copies so far and keep one for discussion purposes and correcting my kids and gave 3 away. It is on Amazon, too.
I used ‘famines’ as an example because it’s the most difficult economic failure to hide. But all markets should be viewed in the same light.
Russia, for example, was a food exporter during World War I until the Turks cut off their Black Sea trade route. But [and I bet DiLorenzo establishes this with clear documentation] the USSR ended up with deadly famines.