The study analyzes the cultural movement that took place in Bessarabia before the union, and which actually replaced the political movement, because, as Onisifor Ghibu ascertains in his book „From Russian Bessarabia to Romanian Bessarabia”, the Bessarabians were not willing to accept a national political program. The cultural movement consisted in the offering of lectures for teachers in schools with Romanian as language of instruction, in book donations and in the bringing of a printing house from Transylvanian organizations, in establishing cultural societies, in publishing journals and books.