After their reunion with the communists, Young Bukharans dominated the power structure of the people's republic. Fitrat and like-minded companions managed to coexist with the Bolsheviks for some time, but Basmachi activists in the center and the east of the republic and a dispute about the presence of Russian troops overcomplicated the situation. Fitrat voiced his disapproval of Bolshevik misjudgments in Central Asian affairs in his "Qiyomat" ("The Last Judgment", 1923). Together with the head of government, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, he tried without success to ally with Turkey and Afghanistan to secure Bukhara's independence