The article examines the phenomenon of Ukrainian national «history for export», emerged through the efforts of the representatives of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Its aim is to identify the key topics and trends of Ukrainian history, written in the Diaspora environment and influencing the formation of national identity and trajectories of further development of the ethnic community. After analyzing a number of sources created in the last hundred years, the author comes to the conclusion that the chronological and geographical regularities of Ukrainian studies are closely connected. «The Ukrainian question», understood as the growth of publication activity on the topic, actualized in those regions, which were preparing for confrontation with the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Therefore, until 1945 it was Germany, Austria-Hungary and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe occupied by Hitler. And in the second half of the XX century that were the countries of anti-Soviet bloc of the Cold war. In an effort to present the Ukrainian nation and its history in the best, and, at the same time deserving of compassion light, the authors of Ukrainian «history for export» tried to replace the history of Ancient Rus’ by the history of Ukraine, demonized the theme of «famine-genocide» of 1932-33, denied the involvement of the OUN and UIA in the Holocaust and the destruction of the poles, mythologized the heroic achievements of dubious historical personalities and stated claims for the world famous public figures and academics, declaring them to be Ukrainians.