ELENA ALISTAR – UN SPIRIT EUROPEAN AL BASARABIEI INTERBELICE

Summary. The present study aims to address the role of the personality of Elena Alistar in the history of Romanians in the interwar period from the perspective of the modernization of Romanian society.A prominent representative of the Union generation, the first female politician in the Romanian area, Elena Alistar, versatile personality, active in many fields and publishing articles and memoirs, supporting any meritorious initiative in the field of education and culture, bringing great services to the education system of interwar Bessarabia, being a promoter of the feminist movement, through all her activity she contributed to the development of the European spirit in the country. The analysis of her activities, publications in the newspapers of that time, the considerations of her contemporaries, taking into account the echoes, which have survived to this day, helps us to build the profile of Elena Alistar, elucidating her prodigious activity as a politician, pedagogue, publicist always at the service of the country and its people.Key words: Elena Alistar, interwar Bessarabia, feminist movement, European spirit, pedagogical activity, publicistă.