In the second volume of the '' History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey '' , which Shaw co-authored with his wife , Ezel Kural Shaw , and which was published in 1977 with the subtitle '' Reform , Revolution , and Republic : the Rise of Modern Turkey , 1808 – 1975 '' , the Shaws denied the Armenian Genocide . Most scholars today believe that the events of 1915 constitute genocide . However , according to Richard G. Hovannisian the Shaws characterize the Armenians as " the victimizers rather than the victims , as the privileged rather than the oppressed , and the fabricators of unfounded tales of massacre . " Hovannisian also criticized the book : " What could have been – what should have been – a valuable text is instead an unfortunate example of nonscholarly selectivity and deceptive presentation . " In the bibliography of his general study on modern Turkey , Turkologist Eric J. Zürcher of the University of Leiden describes the second volume as " a mine of data , " though the information not necessarily being accurate . He highlighted the Shaws ' treatment of the reigns of Selim III and Abdülhamit II as the book 's strongest parts , but observed that the last one hundred years it covers suffers from a " Turkish-nationalist bias . " The second volume caused a stir among Armenian students attending UCLA and the Armenian community of Los Angeles at large . Matters came to a head when on the night of 3 October 1977 , a bomb , placed by unknown assailants , exploded at the doorstep of Shaw 's home at 3:50 a.m. , although no one was hurt . A phone call placed several hours later by a man claimed that the Iranian Group of 28 was responsible for the bombing . Turkey 's permanent ambassador to the UN disputed this , however , and alleged that Armenians were behind the attack . Shaw made light of the situation and attributed the bombing to the fact that he had probably assigned too many F 's . But he claimed that Armenian and Greek students had threatened him over the previous two years and canceled the rest of his classes for the remainder of the quarter . With the controversy unabated ten years later , Shaw would claim Armenians were persecuting him not because of his scholarly views but for anti-Semitism , a charge that was refuted by Jewish organizations , including the UCLA chapter of Hillel , on campus , as well as a number of Jewish public figures and scholars
Armenian Genocide
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