[2] In 1918, Säyfi-Qazanlı returned to Kazan and began to work in the Central Muslim Comissariat led by Mullanur Waxitov.

During the Russian Civil War he taught history and social sciences, as well as military-political and military red commander training courses, at technical schools and other institutions and at the same time actively wrote in the first Tatar Soviet newspapers such as Eşçe (Moscow) and Eş (Kazan).

As the chairman of the society and editor-in-chief of its journal, also called Jaꞑalif (1927–1929), he played one of the most active roles in the implementation of the new script.

In 1936, Fatix Säyfi-Qazanlı was arrested as a part of a falsified[5] case of the Counter-Revolutionary Trotskyist-Nationalist Terrorist Organization.

These works have a special place in the history of Tatar literature as literary reflections of the life of that period, the phenomena of class struggle, and the characteristics of the birth and formation of a new person in those conditions.