Digitalization as a resource for updating the Soviet

Ural Institute of Management - branch of RANEPA, Ekaterinburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: skorobogatskiy-vv@ranepa.ru

Abstract

One of the topical tasks of the development of Russian society is the modernization of the public administration system, bringing the state structure in accordance with the requirements of a new social reality - the transition from an industrial to an information society. The article shows that the administrative-bureaucratic model of public administration, introduced over two decades, has been undergoing a digital transformation in recent years. The main direction of digitalization is the sphere of services that the state provides to citizens, organizations and businesses. It is noted that the usage of modern technologies does not lead to an increase in the efficiency of public administration, and its low quality becomes the main factor hindering economic growth and the formation of human capital. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the reason for the low quality of public administration and the contradictory consequences of its digitalization is that, in terms of its main characteristics, Russian society remains Soviet. The archaization of social, economic and political institutions experienced at the turn of the 1990s-2000s in line with the political course of abandoning market and democratic reforms has created a situation of institutional trap in which Russian society is today and which prevents the effective usage of new generation technologies.