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Follow-up to Chandan Singh Dalawat's excellent answer: smooth curves over $\mathbb{F}_p$ can always be lifted to over $\mathbb{Z}_p$. But there are smooth projective surfaces over $\mathbb{Z}/p^n$ that cannot be lifted to $\mathbb{Z}_p$, see Link .

Ravi Vakil
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