He later enrolled in a three-month course of study in Semipalatinsk, after which he returned to his home village to work as a teacher.
In 1924 he was offered a job as a high-ranking secretary in the executive committee of East Kazakhstan province.
In 1926 he moved to Tashkent to work at the Central Asian State University in the department of Kazakh language and literature.
In 1932 Amanzholov published the grade school textbook Kazakh Grammar (Russian: Грамматика казахского языка).
During that time he directed propaganda activities among soldiers of non-Russian origin, and published Notebook of a Red Army Propagandist (Блокнот агитатора Красной Армии) as well as leaflets about Heroes of the Soviet Union.